Millennium's Nielsen Ratings

Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. Nielsen operates in over 100 countries and was founded in 1923.

The system has been updated and modified extensively since it was developed in the early 1940s by Arthur Nielsen. It has since been the primary source of audience measurement information in the television industry around the world. Since television as a business makes money by selling audiences to advertisers, the Nielsen Television Ratings are the single most important element in determining advertising rates, schedules, and program content.

The company is part of the Nielsen Company, formerly known as VNU and owned by a consortium of private equity firms including Blackstone Group, KKR and Carlyle Group. Its US production operations are located in its Brooker Creek Global Technology and Information Center in Oldsmar, Florida. Its UK operations are based in Oxford.

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Ratings/share and total viewers

The most commonly cited Nielsen results are reported in two measurements: ratings points and share, usually reported as (ratings points/share). A single national ratings point represents one percent of the total number of households for the season. Share is the percentage of television sets in use tuned to the program.

For example, Nielsen may report a show as receiving a 9.2/15 during its broadcast, meaning that on average 9.2 percent of households were tuned in at any given moment (i.e. how many televisions in the country were in use at that time). Additionally, 15 percent of all televisions in use at the time were tuned into this program (i.e. how many of those televisions were watching this particular show). Nielsen re-estimates the number of households each August for the upcoming television season.

Part 2 - Millennium's Nielsen Ratings Analysis

In the second part of our unique look at the Nielsen Ratings for Chris Carter's Millennium television series, we plot the statistical data onto graphs and Libby provides an analysis of the rating trends.

Millennium Episode Profiles

To learn more about the Millennium episodes listed on this page, you can quickly get to the Episode Profiles by selecting one from the list below and clicking the Show Me button:

Episodes:

Millennium Season One

Alternative German Millennium Episode Titles - Season One

#MLM Code

Episode Title

Nielsen Rating

#MLM-100

Pilot

11.9

#MLM-101

Gehenna

8.1

#MLM-102

Dead Letters

8.1

#MLM-103

Kingdom Come

7.2

#MLM-104

The Judge

7.6

#MLM-105

522666

7.6

#MLM-106

Blood Relatives

7.5

#MLM-107

The Well-Worn Lock

6.8

#MLM-108

Wide Open

6.9

#MLM-109

Weeds

7.6

#MLM-110

The Wild and the Innocent

7.1

#MLM-111

Loin Like a Hunting Flame

8.0

#MLM-112

Force Majeure

7.1

#MLM-113

The Thin White Line

6.8

#MLM-114

Sacrament

6.4

#MLM-115

Walkabout

6.3

#MLM-116

Covenant

6.9

#MLM-117

Lamentation

6.7

#MLM-118

Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions

6.7

#MLM-119

Broken World

6.8

#MLM-120

Maranatha

6.3

#MLM-121

Paper Dove

6.6

Millennium Season Two

Alternative German Millennium Episode Titles - Season Two

#MLM Code

Episode Title

Nielsen Rating

#MLM-201

The Beginning and the End

7.3

#MLM-202

Beware of the Dog

6.5

#MLM-203

Sense and Antisense

6.7

#MLM-204

Monster

6.0

#MLM-205

A Single Blade of Grass

6.7

#MLM-206

19:19

6.1

#MLM-207

The Curse of Frank Black

5.7

#MLM-208

The Hand of Saint Sebastian

6.7

#MLM-209

Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense'

5.6

#MLM-210

Goodbye Charlie

5.6

#MLM-211

Midnight of the Century

5.6

#MLM-212

Luminary

5.7

#MLM-213

The Mikado

5.4

#MLM-214

Owls

5.5

#MLM-215

The Pest House

5.7

#MLM-216

Roosters

5.4

#MLM-217

Siren

5.8

#MLM-218

In Arcadia Ego

5.5

#MLM-219

Anamnesis

5.3

#MLM-220

A Room With No View

4.8

#MLM-221

Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me

5.7

#MLM-222

The Fourth Horseman

4.7

#MLM-223

The Time Is Now

4.9

Millennium Season Three

Alternative German Millennium Episode Titles - Season Three

#MLM Code

Episode Title

Nielsen Rating

#MLM-301

The Innocents

5.2

#MLM-302

Exegesis

4.5

#MLM-303

TEOTWAWKI

4.8

#MLM-304

Closure

5.1

#MLM-305

...Thirteen Years Later

5.4

#MLM-306

Skull and Bones

5.1

#MLM-307

Through a Glass, Darkly

5.1

#MLM-308

Omerta

4.8

#MLM-309

Human Essence

4.4

#MLM-310

Borrowed Time

5.3

#MLM-311

Collateral Damage

5.8

#MLM-312

The Sound of Snow

4.7

#MLM-313

Antipas

4.6

#MLM-314

Matryoshka

4.6

#MLM-315

Forcing the End

4.1

#MLM-316

Saturn Dreaming of Mercury

4.2

#MLM-317

Bardo Thodol

3.8

#MLM-318

Darwin's Eye

3.75

#MLM-319

Seven and One

3.7

#MLM-320

Nostalgia

4.35

#MLM-321

Via Dolorosa

5.0

#MLM-322

Goodbye To All That

4.3

NB. Please note that the ratings for Midinight of the Century, Darwin's Eye and Nostalgia are estimated.

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